Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockbrack (corcomroe By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockbrack (corcomroe By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Lissydeela
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lissydeela (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.94996, -9.30712
- SMR number
- CL015-098----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture on the summit of a low SE-facing rise skirted by a minor road to the S, and c. 50m to the W of a small S-flowing tributary of the Inagh River. Hachured and labelled ‘Lissydeela’ on both the first (1840) and Cassini (1916) editions of the OS 6-inch map. Westropp (1910, 3) linked the site-name to the literary figure Daelech, one of a group of Firbolg displaced to the western Irish seaboard. Classified as an enclosure in the RMP (1996). A subcircular bivallate rath (42m ESE-WNW) is defined by a substantial inner flat-topped earth-and-gravel bank (Wth 2-3m; int. H 2.1m; ext. H 1m), a fosse (Wth 4.5m) and a second, outer bank (Wth 3-4m; int. H 2m; ext. H 0.4m). The enclosing elements are heavily overgrown and the interior slopes gently down to SE.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Eve Campbell
Date of upload: 8-10-2025
References
Westropp, T.J. 1910 A study of early forts and stone huts in Inishmore, Aran Isles, Galway Bay. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 29, 174-201.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.